Storm in Sardinia on the new method of recruiting emergency room personnel, operators outside the health system who cover the active shifts in short-staffed units.
A system widespread in various parts of Italy and for a year also on the island, in Ghilarza, Bosa and Oristano , with the Vicenza-based company Mst Group which was awarded the contract.
Meidici "for rent". «We are very much against it: first of all because they do not have adequate professionalism, and therefore do not guarantee the assistance due to patients ; then there is the economic factor, the cost for these services is exorbitant, and healthcare companies risk defaulting. Again: these mandated doctors always change, so they do not know the hospital, its organization, the operation of the clinics, the other colleagues ", explains Salvatore Manca, retired from San Martino and member of the national board of Simeu (Italian society of medicine emergency-urgency).
The notice
This private service - already widely contested by opposition counselors - will also extend to the hospitals of San Gavino, Tempio, Isili, Muravera, Lanusei, Nuoro, Sorgono, Carbonia and Iglesias , for the moment from 1 July to 30 September, and for the cost of the operation, the expenditure commitment exceeds one and a half million euros, calculating a flat rate of 80 euros per hour plus VAT.
The criticisms
The leader of the Progressives Francesco Agus, the first signatory of a question signed also by Pd, LeU and M5S, disputes the maxi-contract, speaks of the "privatization" risk of Sardinian healthcare and warns: "This cannot be the solution to the shortcomings of organic, competitions are held quickly and transparently ».
The region
The Councilor for Health Mario Nieddu also returns to the question: «Today our priority is to strengthen a system exhausted by over two years of pandemic and with the prospect of a summer that will bring an enormous number of presences to the island. There is no privatization of public health, those who argue about our choices do so in an instrumental way without indicating alternatives ".
(Unioneonline)
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